Plato's Symposium

Plato founded the

• Academy

• Lyceum

• Universitat

• Hippodrome

Plato's teacher was

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Alexander the Great

• Aristophanes

In the Speech of Pausanias, there are two types of love...

• Celestial and Common

• Heavenly and Christian

• Heavenly and Common

• Aphrodite and Agathon

In the Speech of Pausanias, which of these is associated with Heavenly love?

• the soul

• male love

• older wisdom

• all of the answers

According to Pausanias, which statement is false?

• Love is in himself noble and worthy of praise

• laws should forbid the taking advantage of young boys

• the laws will forgive a lover, even for breaking his vows

• Love is not in himself noble and worthy of praise

According to Aristophanes' speech, there are how many forms of human nature?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

The androgynous is associated with which celestial being?

• the sun

• the moon

• the earth

• venus

Why did Zeus split our former selves into two?

• We ascended upon the heavens and tried to mate with the gods

• We stopped praying to the gods

• We asked him to do it

• We ascended upon the heavens and tried to attack the gods

Aristophanes says, "people who are split from a male are male-orientated...they love men and enjoy lying with men" He later makes a reference to which two lovers?

• Pausanias and Agathon

• Pausanias and Agamemmnon

• Phaedrus and Agathon

• Phaedrus and Alcibiades